Ty Watches "Godzilla Minus Zero"

I went out and watched "Godzilla Minus Zero" this past Wednesday, and I have a spoiler filled review for you all today. If you want to watch the movie before getting spoiled, go do that and then read my review.

I was highly anticipating this movie ever since I saw "Godzilla Minus One". RD is more of the Godzilla fan on this site, but he turned me on to "Minus One". I loved that, so I went into this one very excited. And it did not disappoint in the least.

This movie was pretty goddamn awesome. Some may say that the appearance of Ghidorah is a spoiler, but that is the first thing you see after a very short opening credit scene. The movie opens with Ghidorah running roughshod over some other town in Japan. Ghidorah has this short and quick fire breath, akin to a lightning strike, and those shots do some heavy damage.

After taking over the town, Ghidorah goes to rest, and this is where the humans show up again. This is what I love most about the "Minus One" and "Minus Zero" movies. These movies beg the question, what would the government do if some monsters started to randomly attack a city they are in charge of protecting? These are human stories, stories of survivors' guilt, being put in impossible situations, finding a way out, struggles as parents, all the while monsters are a constant threat to destroy at any given moment. I used to never care about the humans in Godzilla content, but these movies have changed that for me.

And all the usual suspects are back from "Minus One", with a few new faces. We have the doctor, the pilot, his wife, their kid and his buddies who survived from the first movie. Meanwhile we get a new professor, a meteorologist and a few new faces here to help with the fight. But make no mistake, this movie is about taking down Ghidorah, and when Godzilla does show up, this movie goes even harder. The scenes when they are trying to stop Ghidorah are great. They make mistakes, they screw up, and it costs them at first. When they drop a bomb, which they acquire from the US military, who is the villain in this movie by the way, they drop it and literally miss Ghidorah. They try some backup plans, to no avail. Ghidorah ravages the town they are closest to. There's a scene where Ghidorah lifts this entire city, to destroy it, and as our hero pilot from the first movie flies by he can see a mom and child screaming for help, in total terror. It was agonizing to see that happen. But Ghidorah is a monster, and this monster does not care who it destroys along the way. The stuff with the pilot, his wife and their kid was tough. The kid keeps getting left behind by the folks, they have to help save the day, but she always tells them to "have a safe trip". That is because her mom told her that if she says that there's no way they can be hurt. It is heartbreaking when she yells it at them over and over again during the final act of the movie. We also see that the wife, if you remember she was assumed dead in the first movie, but she opens her eyes and is seemingly okay, seems to be having ill effects from her encounter with Godzilla in "Minus One". This plays a pivotal part when Godzilla shows back up in this movie. And when Godzilla does come back, destroying the Statue Of Liberty and a bunch of people in New York City, it was like seeing an old friend that I missed. They need Godzilla's help to take down Ghidorah because, not only did their first attempt not work, but they realized that Ghidorah can regenerate and grow extra limbs if needed at the drop of the hat. After Godzilla wrecks NYC, the wife and the professor, a new addition in this movie, use the machinery they have to communicate with Godzilla. This leads to an awesome and massive fight between our two monsters. The humans think they may have stopped Ghidorah, but they did not, for a second time, and Dr Noda, my personal favorite character, dies a hero's death after seeing all of this go down. The fight between Godzilla and Ghidorah is awesome. They trade blows, Godzilla rips off one of Ghidorah's heads at one point. It looks as if Ghidorah has won and everyone is going to get hurt badly, but then Godzilla comes back, regrows an arm and has the atomic blast on Ghidorah to end all atomic blasts. Now, we all think that Godzilla has saved the people, and the people let him retreat to the ocean with no harm done, but after the credits you can hear some loud growling going on, and who's to say that is Ghidorah or Godzilla. I certainly don't know, especially after the conclusion of "Minus One".

"Minus Zero" is a more than serviceable sequel to "Minus One". Toho knows how to make these movies better than anyone in the game. I was cheering, tearing up and sitting on the edge of my seat throughout this movie, and that makes it all the more fun for me. I also saw it with rumble chairs and on a very big screen, which only added to my enjoyment. I definitely recommend "Minus Zero". This movie should be up for multiple awards come that season. This movie kicked butt. 

Ty 

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast.

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